CSP - A SERIES OF STUDY GROUP MEETINGS TO BUILD A COMMUNITY OF TECHNICAL EXPERTS FOR MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS
Abstract
There is an extremely rapid development and proliferation of unclassified, commercial/civilian tools that would be extremely useful for MDA (i.e., small satellites and various payloads). However, the operational MDA communities are not yet able to take full advantage of such tools. There are multiple reasons for this. One of the main reasons - the one most relevant to the mission of ONRG - is the lack of basic S&T expertise that would enable the application of these tools for MDA. Thus, the primary objective of this series of meetings is to build a community of S&T professionals who are knowledgeable in the nature of the available tools and competent at exploring the ways to extract the most relevant information from the tools. As US Navy is responsible for MDA in the US, and it is in DOD s interest to increase the MDA capabilities in allies, it is in the interest of ONR/NRE/DON to build a S&T community that is specifically interested in the MDA applications, and to help develop its technical competency. The idea of a series of study group meetings to build a community of MDA experts came about at the successful MDA workshop in Tokyo which was funded by CSP. The workshop was developed in collaboration with Dr. John Mittleman, NRL. The desired outcome of this series of meetings is a technically competent community of remote sensing, maritime traffic, satellite payloads, and other experts who can be called upon to take advantage of the latest development in the remote sensing capabilities that are continuing to advance rapidly.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 07, 2017
- Source ID
- N629091512042
Entities
People
- Yoshinori Kobayashi
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy